Greg Hardy

Domestic violence is a shady sinner. Smiles on the outside hide the inner rage.

It can be a brilliant disguise, but the reveal is quite disturbing. It includes the battered faces of women and men, and of dogs and cats used as collateral damage, a coward’s card of threatening the life of a pet if the victim leaves.

We can add Orlando City midfielder Will Johnson to the unsettling DV conversation, after his arrest on a domestic battery charge early Wednesday morning.

Johnson is accused by his wife Caroline Childs Johnson of tackling her and “wrapping both of his arms completely around her waist” during an argument. The couple can now add this incident to their pressing...

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